This Day in History

Explore significant literary events, births, and milestones that occurred throughout history on each day of the month.

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		1 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus was published anonymously …...	2 The fourth and final canto of Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s …...	3 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, known to readers as JRR Tolkien, …...	4 Poet and author T...	5 Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr...
6 American poet Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois... The first edition of Miguel Cervantes’ groundbreaking novel Don Quixote …...	7 American author Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama...	8 Chilean writer Isabel Allende wrote a letter to her dying …...	9 Feminist philosopher and author Simone de Beauvoir was born in …...	10 Thomas Paine published his popular pamphlet “Common Sense,” advocating for …...	11 JK Rowling completed work on her seventh and final Harry …...	12 Author Jack London was born in San Francisco, California...
13 Irish writer and master satirist Jonathan Swift was ordained as …...	14 British author Lewis Carroll died from pneumonia in his sister’s …...	15 French playwright and humorist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his …...	16 Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws was published by Doubleday, proving a …...	17 Poet Mary Oliver passed away in her home in Home …... Anne Brontë, the youngest of the Brontë sisters, was born …...	18 Alan Alexander Milne, known in print as A... Anton Chekhov’s final play, The Cherry Orchard opened at the …...	19 Edgar Allan Poe, master of the macabre poem and short …...
20 Maya Angelou read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” …...	21 British author George Orwell passed away in his sleep from …...	22 Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible premiered at The Martin Beck …...	23 Poet Derek Walcott was born in Castries, St...	24 American writer Edith Wharton was born in New York City...	25 Poet Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Scotland...	26 British writer and screenwriter Christopher Hampton was born in Portugal...
27 Author JD Salinger passed away at the age of 91 …...	28 Thomas Egerton published Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice...	29 The Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” …...	30 Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days was …...	31 American Western author Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio …...